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Biographical Note

Henry
Clay Reed, historian and University of Delaware professor, was born 15 May
1899, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. He served the University of Delaware for forty
years, researching, teaching, writing, and editing numerous articles and books.
He helped create and guide the American Studies program at the University,
serving as the first chairman of the program and helping to improve the climate
for interdisciplinary study. He was also involved with a number of library,
historical, and fraternal projects and organizations.

Henry
Clay Reed grew up in Pennsylvania, graduating from Lock Haven High School in
1916. He later registered and began training for the United States Army,
serving briefly before being honorably discharged in December 1918, with the
termination of hostilities. He enrolled in Bucknell University, earning a
Bachelor’s degree in 1922, and a provisional teaching certificate in English,
Spanish, Mathematics, and History. He taught high school in various districts
in Pennsylvania while enrolling in graduate courses. In 1924, Reed moved to
Newark, Delaware, and began instructing for the University of Delaware, becoming
a full professor of History in 1947, chairing the History Department from 1944
– 1952, and retiring in 1964. Henry Clay Reed was ultimately recognized as
Professor Emeritus of the History Department, and was awarded the honor of
having the chaired professorship of the department bear his name.

On
2 April 1927, he married Marion L. Bjornson. She was a classmate at
Pennsylvania State College, where Reed was pursuing graduate study. They both
earned Master’s degrees in History; husband and wife would later collaborate on
several scholarly works, including A
Bibliography of Delaware through 1960 (Newark, 1966). In 1931, Reed was
accepted as a fellow in American History at Princeton University and awarded a
stipend to complete his Doctoral degree. He completed his PhD in 1939 with the
submission of a dissertation containing chapters on the history of crime and punishment
in New Jersey. Topics in the
history of crime and punishment continued to interest him throughout his
academic career; he pursued research in this area for over thirty years.

Henry
Clay Reed edited The Burlington Court
Book (Washington, 1944), Delaware: A History of the First State (New
York, 1947), and Readings in Delaware
History: Economic Development (Newark,
1934). He wrote Delaware A Colony (New
York, 1970), a book for school children and popular audiences about Delaware
history, and numerous scholarly articles. Reed also collaborated in editing and
translating Charles de Lannoy’s History
of Swedish Colonial Expansion (Newark, 1938). He devoted many research
hours to two projects which never came to full fruition: a complete history of
crime and punishment in New Jersey from the early Colonial Period to the Civil
War, and a history of counterfeiting in the United States.

From
1927 to 1930, Reed was an employee of the Delaware State Archives Commission.
His concern with libraries, archives, and historical repositories spanned his
career; his role in expanding and improving the University of Delaware Library,
as well as other regional repositories, is notable. In 1937, he became an involved
and influential member of the Delaware Tercentenary Commission, helping to plan
the festivities in 1938. He served as Director to the President of the
Historical Society of Delaware, and also served as a member of the American Historical
Association, the American Society of Church History, the American Association
for State and Local History, the Middle States Council for Social Studies, the Archaeological
Society of Delaware, the New Jersey Historical Society, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
and Phi Kappa Phi. Henry Clay Reed died rather suddenly in June of 1972, from
complications arising from his diabetes.

Sources: Biographical information was drawn from the collection.

Scope and Content Note

The
Henry Clay Reed Papers, spanning the dates from 1915 – 1974, contains legal
documents, photographs, microfilm, correspondence, research notes, manuscripts,
publications, and ephemera from the historian and University of Delaware
professor. The collection was a gift of Marion (Bjornson) Reed in 1978, with an
additional gift in 1980. Because Reed’s research interests spanned his career
and many items are difficult to date, items have been arranged utilizing both
chronology and consideration of subject matter. In addition, where possible,
Henry Clay or Marion Reed’s organization of materials has been maintained.

The
collection will perhaps be most useful to scholars who share Henry Clay Reed’s
research interests. Many of his extensive notes, transcripts, and manuscript pages
consider aspects of crime or punishment both in the secular legal system and in
various Christian denominations in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth
centuries. Topics with extensive documentation in the proposed history of Crime
and Punishment in New Jersey include animal cruelty, church discipline, domestic
violence, infanticide, theft, the legal system in relation to servants,
apprentices, children, and slaves, and other topics. In addition to
dissertation material, this collection preserves Reed’s original research
notes, annotations to the dissertation, and later revisions. It could serve as
an entry point for researchers into colonial history sources, or assist a
researcher in placing Christian denominational differences of the Colonial period
in comparative perspective. Reed’s papers also include a considerable amount of
academic research on the history of counterfeiting in the United States, and on
the history of crime and punishment in Delaware. He taught advanced-level
seminars on the history of crime and punishment and on the history of church
discipline; teaching notes, research, and student papers in the collection
reflect the content of these courses. Another topic in Delaware’s history of
punishment which interested Reed was “Red Hannah,” or, the whipping post.
Researchers interested in the history of this punishment in Delaware will find
Reed’s notes, clippings, and correspondence useful.

Reed’s
research interests also included the history of African Americans in Delaware. Amongst
his papers is a manuscript article on the Underground Railroad in Delaware,
with a collection of letters from the 1920-1930s that contain personal
recollections from the niece and grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, regarding
Stowe’s contacts with Thomas Garrett, a stationmaster on the Wilmington
Underground Railroad. In addition, a large collection of newspaper clippings
documents the Civil Rights movement and the history of integration in Delaware.
Researchers may also be interested in Reed’s correspondence with Pauline Young
(F67), who wrote the chapter on the history of African Americans in Delaware
for Delaware: a History of the First
State.

Reed’s
correspondence with other chapter contributors is equally interesting. Mary de
Vou kept up a substantial exchange with Reed as she made progress on her
history of the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association for her chapter on women in Delaware.
De Vou forwarded a letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, in which Catt recalled her
unsuccessful visit to the Delaware Assembly to lobby for suffrage. A series of
letters between Reed and Emalea Pusey Warner, and letters with local reminiscences
about Julia Ward Howe and others punctuate this file (F66, F68).

Researchers
interested in collecting activities or philately will also find items of
interest in the Henry Clay Reed Papers. For example, Reed began collecting
stamps at age six, and much of the correspondence in the collection reflects
his interest: he frequently requested that the postage stamps he had sent out
be returned to him, and this is acknowledged in several letters. Another
indication of his deep interest in stamps is his instigation, in 1932, of a
letter writing campaign to convince the United States Postal Service to issue a
commemorative stamp of William Penn. His arguments in favor of the stamp, the
progress of the campaign, and other participants can all be traced in the
collection. The Postal Service initially refused to issue a stamp, but after
increasing pressure was brought on the Postmaster General, Walter F. Brown, by
Senator John Townsend of Delaware, Brown acceded to the request, and the Postal
Service issued a three cent Penn stamp. The stamp was first sold at the post
office in New Castle, Delaware – Penn’s original landing site. Reed’s efforts
with this stamp will likely also interest scholars concerned with historical
memory and the public.

Scholars
interested in historical memory and public celebrations, colonial revivals, or
the attention given to European cultural influences in America, will also find
evidence of Reed’s efforts to revive public interest in historic events.
Academically, these topics relate to Reed’s efforts in translating the works of
Charles de Lannoy, a French scholar concerned with European Colonial expansion,
and his active involvement in the Swedish Colonial Society, the Tercentenary
Celebrations in Delaware, and his activities with the Civil War Centennial
Commission and the Wilmington Civil War Round Table group. The collection
contains correspondence, ephemera, and printed materials about these activities
which are supplemented by other sources in the Special Collections department.

Those
interested in the history of libraries, especially the development and acquisition
of books in the University of Delaware Library, may be interested in Reed’s "Library
Committee Papers," and his correspondence with librarians and archivists.
He advised the Delaware State Archives Commission about activities,
organization, and steps needed to preserve collections in the 1930s. Collection
correspondence shows Reed participated in collecting activities for several
libraries, as well as shaping area museum development. For example, the
collection contains papers about consulting work Reed completed for the Winterthur
Museum, the Dickinson Mansion, and the University of Delaware Museum.

A
historian interested in the material culture of death and the social and
cultural courtesies surrounding death and literary memory may also be
interested in the collection. It contains over a hundred condolence cards and
letters. In addition, it contains letters about the will and last wishes of
Wilbur Owen Sypherd. Sypherd, a University
of Delaware professor and
administrator, directed in his Last Will and Testament that Henry Clay Reed
evaluate his unpublished literary remains (see also MSS 232 Wilbur Owen Sypherd
Papers).

Scholars
interested in academic or encyclopedia publishing may find correspondence, draft
submissions, and manuscript notes of interest. Those researching faculty lives at
public universities will find Reed’s correspondence with colleagues and
administrators interesting. Reed’s housing documents also contain papers
highlighting the University of Delaware’s efforts to assist faculty in securing
mortgages.

The
Henry Clay Reed Papers also contain a number of items which will excite Delaware
historians, particularly those interested in the history of Newark. Reed saved
campaign materials for many local elections, and collected cultural and
recreational ephemera from the town. Local historians may especially enjoy the
item An Historical Note Upon the
Retirement of Henry Clay Reed by Carl J. Rees, a reminiscence of life in Newark
in 1925 when Reed, Rees, and other boarders shared an apartment in Angie
Perkins’ home. Finally, those interested in how Delaware history is taught may
be interested in the exam questions used by Reed to access student knowledge of
Delaware history in undergraduate classes. The collection also contains letters
from Leon
deValinger, Harold Hancock, John Munroe, Winifred Robinson, and C.A. Weslager.

Related Collections:

The
University of Delaware’s collection of Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel Transcripts, MSS 462, which dates from 1703 to 1782 (bulk dates
1703-1776), was given to the University of Delaware Library in 1964 by Henry
Clay Reed.These transcripts were likely
compiled in the conduct of his research.

MSS
98 Folder 149, the John C. Hull letters to John Thomson, is small manuscript
collection related to a prominent Newark
family that was purchased by Henry Clay Reed and donated to the University
of Delaware Library.

Collections
of other University professors and Delaware
historians in Special Collections include the papers of John Munroe, Leon de
Valinger, Wilbur Owen Sypherd, and Winifred J. Robinson.

The
University Archives also contains some records pertaining to the career of
Henry Clay Reed.

Includes grade reports,
letters of recommendation, correspondence, and a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction,
Provisional College Certificate authorizing Henry Clay Reed to teach English,
Spanish, mathematics, and history, 1921.

F3Early Teaching Career, 1919 – 1924 (6
items)

Includes a letter
regarding his election to the Principalship of Turbotville High School,
Turbotville, PA, with salary information, 1919; a letter from J.C. Weirick,
Principal of Arlington High School in Arlington, PA; a letter of recommendation
from Frank H. Painter, superintendent of schools at Jersey Shore, PA, 1923; two
contracts between H. Clay Reed, “teacher,” and Clairton Public Schools,
Clairton, PA, for 1923-1924, and 1924-1925, and a letter accepting his
resignation from high school teaching, Clairton, PA, 1924.

Includes general
correspondence, thank you cards, letters from former students, letters about
conferences and publications, references to his personal library, a letter from
the treasury discussing two-dollar bills, social invitations, letters about his
selection as director to the president of the Historical Society of Delaware,
letters about the will and literary manuscripts of Doctor Wilbur Owen Sypherd,
and an oversize envelope from the Works Progress Administration, postmarked
1940.

Includes a postcard of the
William Penn Statue, Philadelphia, a letter to President H. Hoover, handwritten
notes, letters from the White House and the Office of the Postmaster General, letters
from other interested historical societies and universities, and several
letters from Senator John Townsend (DE). Also contains news clippings and a
1958 letter about a Reed gift of commemorative stamps.

F7Political Correspondence and Ephemera,
1932 – 1971 (40 items)

Includes a TLS from Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Executive Mansion, New York, 1932, acknowledging receipt of a
letter from H. Clay Reed; two ticket stubs for the Democratic National
Convention, 1936, a white “Vandenberg” pinback badge with a red ribbon, from
the campaign of Senator Arthur Vandenberg (MI) for the Republican presidential nomination
(1940), two ticket stubs for the Republican National Convention of 1948, ticket
stub and tickets for the Democratic National Convention of 1948, a 1948 letter
from Senator Milton Young (ND) to Marion Reed about the conventions, an
admittance card to the United States Senate Chamber in 1954, letters from
Senator John Williams (DE), Senator J. Allen Frear, ballots and vote count for
the 1952 Delaware State elections, 1971 letters from Delaware State Senator
Everette Hale and Representative Jack Billingsley about shared opposition to
“Parochiaid” legislation which would share states funds with private schools;
miscellany. Also includes Time Magazine
March 25, 1940 that printed a letter from Henry Clay Reed about retiring
Presidents of the United States and letters to him about this political
opinion.

F8Housing Documents, 1945 – 1950 (15
items)

Includes a Farmers’
Trust Company of Newark letter regarding a title, a letter from J. Rankin
Davis, attorney, regarding a deed search, property records, “Memorandum to
University Personnel” about obtaining Mortgage loans from University of
Delaware funds, mortgage and loan documents. Reed at one time lived at 157 W.
Main Street, Newark, Delaware.

SeriesI.Personal
Papers, 1915 – 1974 (continued)

1F9Retirement,
1964 (9 items)

Includes invitations and
letters written to Henry Clay Reed after his retirement announcement in 1964
and a University of Delaware faculty club certificate awarding “Honorary
Lifetime Membership.” Also includes the five page document An Historical Note Upon the Retirement of Henry Clay Reed by Carl
J. Rees, a reminiscence of life in Newark
in 1925 when Reed, Rees, and other boarders shared an apartment in Angie
Perkins’ home.

Condolences, 1972 – 1974

After Henry Clay Reed’s
death in 1972, his wife Marion Reed kept over a hundred condolence cards,
notes, and letters, ultimately sorting them into three categories, as divided
below. The folders contain dozens of cards acknowledging donations to the
Delaware Diabetes Association.

F10Condolences from friends

F11Condolences from students

F12Condolences from faculty

F13News clippings about Henry Clay Reed (19
items)

Several articles which
mention Reed or his works, primarily local newspapers.

Series
II.Academic Research, Manuscripts,
and Works – New
Jersey
Subjects

The
nature of Reed’s dissertation work and a subsequent effort to turn the
dissertation into a book led him to conduct extensive research in early New
Jersey history. New Jersey church discipline, legal codes, and criminal justice
are all subjects which appear throughout this series. The series also includes
a conference paper, reviews, and correspondence about his publication The Burlington Court Book (1944).

New
Jersey Research, Correspondence, Notes, and Ephemera

F14Research – Notes, Sources, Printed Materials,
and Ephemera

Includes Reed’s research
notes, list of books and pamphlets, transcriptions including The Plain Dealer, 1776, printed materials
and ephemera, postcards, programs, A
Brochure of Old Tennent, 1931 with The
Remarkable Trance of Rev. William Tennent and an offprint, Historical Notes on Cape May by Robert
C. Alexander, 1960. Also includes hundreds of note cards which have been
removed to card boxes 5 – 8.

Series
II. Research, Manuscripts, Works – New Jersey Subjects (cont’d)

1F15Research
– Transcriptions and Copies

Includes photo static
copies of Blood Will Out, the trial,
confession, and execution of Thomas Lutherland, executed at Salem, New Jersey,
1692; The Last Confession & Dying
Words of Conrad Englehart, and The
German Petition to the Common Council of the City of Newark to repeal the
laws against “Sabbath Tippling” and “Sabbath Desecration.” Also includes negative
copies from microfilm of New Jersey newspapers and pamphlets with some
notations, such as the Newark Daily
Advertiser, 1846, The History of the
Newark Female Charitable Society, 1903, and others. See also Series III,
folder 36.

F16Bibliographic Notes, New Jersey

Additional hand written
notes about research, containing research lists for New Jersey materials

F17Research Correspondence, 1932 – 1939

Postcards and letters
about Reed’s research for his dissertation, especially his chapter on early
church discipline. Many of the letters are from contemporary repositories of
various church records that had a congregation in New Jersey prior to the Civil
War.

F18Research Correspondence, 1940 – 1957

Additional research
correspondence about the projected volume on the history of crime and
punishment in New Jersey.

F19Letters from Princeton, 1936 – 1966

Primarily from Thomas J.
Wertenbaker, Reed’s advisor, these discuss Reed’s dissertation and subsequent
plans to publish an expanded volume on the history of crime and punishment in
New Jersey.

Manuscript
Chapters in A History of Crime and
Punishment in New Jersey

Reed submitted chapters
of his work for dissertation credit in 1939. He continued to work on the
manuscript and planned to publish it as a book in the Princeton Series of the
History of New Jersey. Therefore, multiple versions of some manuscript chapters
exist; some have notations, and some are possible to date to 1941 or after.

F20Dissertation chapters

Chapter I “The Peopling
of New Jersey”

Chapter II “Agencies of
Social Control – The Courts”

F21Dissertation chapter

Chapter III “Agencies of
Social Control – The Church”

Series
II. Research, Manuscripts, Works – New Jersey Subjects (cont’d)

1F22Dissertation
chapter

Chapter IV and additional
fragments

F23Dissertation chapters

Chapter V: “Offenses
against the Person”

Chapter VI: “Offenses
against Property”

F24Dissertation chapter

Chapter VII: “Sexual
Irregularities”

F25Annotated Chapters I – III (n.d., after
1941)

Chapter Fragments

F26“The Decline of Capital Punishment”

F27“Wife beating”

F28“The Prison System”

F29“Private Executions”

F30“Reform of the Criminal Law of 1796”

2F31“Servants,”
“Apprentices,” and “Capital Punishment in the Schools”

F32“Cruelty to Animals”

F33Miscellaneous pages with notes

Works

F34“Forced Labor as a Factor in Early New
Jersey Penology” 1934 (2 items)

Fifteen-page conference
paper with corrections and notes, and program fragments for the Second Annual New Jersey Historical Congress, April 5-8, 1934

F35New
Jersey. Courts.

The
Burlington court book : a record of Quaker jurisprudence in west New Jersey,
1680-1709 / edited by H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller. Washington, D.C. :
American Historical Association, 1944. [Book available in Special Collections,
Delaware Collection.] Includes microfilm copy of The Court Booke, 1681, the original of which is held by the New
Jersey State Archives. Also includes correspondence and reviews of Reed’s work.
Note: microfilm of the Burlington
Advertiser (an important source used by Reed for this project) is available
on microfilm in the University of Delaware
Library.

Series
III.Academic Research – Delaware Subjects

The
majority of Reed’s publications and his teaching career centered on Delaware
history. This series contains many of the notes, transcriptions and source
references he used writing and teaching about Delaware. Many of Reed's notes
have been transferred to card boxes 9 - 12.

2F36State of New Jersey vs.
State of Delaware, Complainants Exhibits, Volume II

Hundreds of notes, many
removed to card boxes 9 – 10, typed transcriptions including Rules to Govern the time of Work in Shop of
L.V. Aspril; James Logan’s Letter on
the Separation of Delaware; and many excerpts from eighteenth and early
nineteenth century travelogues and memoirs containing reflections on Delaware,
Wilmington, and the Chesapeake. Includes copies of the letters of Francis
Allison, 1766 – 1773, that relate to the founding of Newark Academy, and a
series of letters from Confederate prisoners held at Fort Delaware.

Wilmington and New
Castle County, 1702 -1851. Includes a photographic reproduction of an engraving
of a Red Lion Camp Meeting.

F43Research – Capital Punishment and the
Prison System

Includes letters,
editorials, reports, and articles discussing these issues, also includes a list
of the male convicts of New Castle County from 1840 to 1880. See also Series VI
folder 103 for more news clippings on capital punishment

F44Research – “Red Hannah,” or the history of
the whipping post in Delaware

Includes a four page typed
manuscript fragment, articles, clippings, and a postcard. See also series IV
folder 54, for notes on a Delaware whipping.

Series
III.Academic Research – Delaware Subjects (cont’d)

F45Electoral College and Electoral College
Reform

Includes articles,
offprints, a copy of the original motion in State
of Delaware vs. State of New York, 1966 and responses, Delaware’s
test case seeking Electoral College reform, Congressional records and letters
about the Electoral College, a copy of a petition written by “the People of
Delaware,” 1967, and other items.

F46AResearch – Notes on Delaware’s electoral
history and other Delaware topics

F47B"A Syllabus of a Proposed Course of
Study of the History of Delaware for High

Schools of Delaware prepared by Rosalie R.
Martin."

F48Research Correspondence, Delaware Related,
1927 – 1970

Includes letters from
the Department of the Interior about college student migration, a letter from
Ellen Samworth, the Work Progress Administration writer preparing a “History of
Education in Delaware,” for the Federal Writer’s Project; letters from Richard
S. Rodney, including one about public tours of private houses in historic New
Castle; a letter from the Delaware State Board of Pharmacy, including a typed
list of pharmacists registered in Delaware in July 1883; letters from the Delaware
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; photographs, letter, and map
from Orville H. Peets about archaeological evidence uncovered during a dig to
lay a water main in Wilmington, 1957; a letter from C. A. Weslager about
discovering Caesar Rodney’s journal from the Stamp Act Congress, and others.

Series
IV.University of Delaware Papers, 1924 – 1970

Reed’s
career at University of Delaware spanned forty years; in that time he generated
and collected a number of papers relating to his career and the University.
This series includes correspondence, printed materials, teaching files, (with
original organization maintained), outlines, test questions, and information
about student activities

3F49AUniversity
of Delaware Correspondence, 1924 – 1966

Includes a letter
acknowledging Reed’s acceptance as instructor, 1924, and numerous letters from students,
parents, administrators, faculty, colleagues, and Reed himself about various
topics, and Reed’s letter of recommendation for John Munroe. Also includes news
clippings and a theater program for the “E 52 University Theatre” production of
The Crucible.

Series
IV.University of Delaware Papers, 1924 – 1970 (cont’d)

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F49BHistory Department Materials, 1927 - 1949

Includes minutes from
committee meetings, University materials, course assignments, and
correspondence

F49CHistory Department Materials, 1950 - 1964

Includes minutes from
committee meetings, University materials, course assignments, and correspondence

F49DCommittee of Faculty Publications, 1945 -
1950

Includes committee
meeting minutes, correspondence and ephemera from academic publishers. Also
includes materials about the publication and distribution of William Owen
Sypherd's book Jephtah and His Daughter,
1948

F49ECommittee of Faculty Publications, 1950 -
1953

Includes committee
meeting minutes, correspondence and ephemera from academic publishers

F49FFaculty Lists and Committees

Additional papers
relating to Reed's professional responsibilities at the University of Delaware

F49GLibrary Committee, 1934, 1942 - 1947

Includes committee
meeting minutes, correspondence, and information about the burgeoning library

F49HLibrary Committee, 1948 - 1950, 1966 - 1967

Includes committee
meeting minutes, correspondence, information about the burgeoning library, and
library ephemera such as a Library Associates newsletter, 1966, program, 1967,
and booklet about Morris Library entitled “To use the Library...”

F49ILibrary Committee - Gifts and Friends of
the Library

Includes procedures for
the library's acceptance of gifts, solicitations, and correspondence

Letters and postcards
from History Department colleague John Munroe and his wife “Dot,” to Henry Clay
and Marion Reed.

Series
IV.University of Delaware Papers, 1924 – 1970 (cont’d)

3

F51Printed Materials, News Clips, and
Ephemera

Includes a 1938 commencement
program, a 1968 program for A Concert of
Indian Dance, promotional material for the College
of Education, an edition of The Review from 1 November, 1940, and news clips about fireworks
and integration of the University. See also Series VI F99

F52Course Outlines and Lecture Notes

Handwritten and typed
outlines for courses and lectures in Delaware
history, notes, and quotations about the meaning and definition of history and
the role of historians. Additional note cards for lectures removed to Card Box
10.

F53Test Questions and Exam Papers, 1926 –
1941

Courses include History
103, 104, 203, and 205. The notes and questions varied somewhat over time, but
many questions are on the history of Delaware

F54Seminar Folder – “History 503: Crime and
Punishment” 1948 – 1963

This folder contains
letters, notes, bibliographic references, research, lecture outlines, and other
materials related to Reed’s course on the history of crime and punishment. Of
some interest is Reed’s letters to the Sussex County Prison requesting
permission for his class to witness the whipping of a prisoner in 1950, and his
notes on the experience. The file retains Reed’s original groupings of items.
It also includes papers and assignments submitted by students in the course.

F55AStudent Papers

Includes student works
from History 504: Church Discipline, reports on Dorothea Dix, and student
outlines. Also includes work from History 333, such as family histories and
economic genealogies.

F55BStudent Papers - Thesis, 1948

Includes materials
relating to "The German Element in Wilmington from 1850 - 1914" a
thesis written by J. Emil Abeles and directed by H. Clay Reed

F55CStudent Papers - Thesis, 1951

Includes materials
relating to a thesis on Delaware libraries written by Katherine Kienle and
directed by H. Clay Reed

Series
V.Publications, Manuscripts, and
Related Materials

This series
contains a variety of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, proofs, and
off-prints about or for many of Henry Clay Reeds work’s, both edited and
authored. Notes from this series are also contained in card box 13.

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F56AEarly works - The Underground Railroad in
Delaware

Includes an un-signed manuscript
fragment and research notes. Also includes correspondence with personal
recollections, and letters from Annie Beecher Seoville and Lyman Beecher Stowe,
the niece and grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe; both discuss a letter between
Stowe and Thomas Garrett.

F56B Early works - "The Ratification of the
Federal Constitution by PA," 1930

Manuscript copy of a
paper written by Henry Clay Reed

F56CEarly works - “The Delaware Constitution of 1776,” 1930

Letters, research notes,
and a news clipping

Translations
of Charles deLannoy, 1936 – 1958

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F57A
History of Swedish Colonial Expansion

Henry
Clay Reed assisted in translating and editing the work of French Scholar
Charles deLannoy. Includes a copy of the work as published in translation by the
University of Delaware Press, 1938; correspondence between deLannoy and Reed, and
a French off-print of a deLannoy article on colonialism in the Congo

F58Handwritten translation Colonial Expansion of theNetherlands

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F59Typed manuscript of Colonial Expansion of the Netherlands andDenmark

Includes preface (338
pages)

F60Typed manuscript of Denmark at the Beginning of Its Colonial Expansion

F61Encyclopedia Articles and Correspondence,
1943 – 1972

Letters between Reed and
Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Junior, The Grolier Society, two articles,
and a certificate from Encyclopedia Britannica naming Reed as a “Distinguished
Contributor”

Delaware: A History of the First State, 1944 – 1948

F62Delaware:
A History of the First State promotional material

Lewis Historical
Publishing Company book, includes list of advisory board, introduction and
biographical sketch of Henry Clay Reed, table of contents, and a series of
black and white photographic reproductions of scenes in Delaware which were
featured in the history

Includes original
contract and correspondence about the planning, writing, publishing, sale, and
distribution of the history. Also includes references to Reed’s stamp
collecting.

F64General Correspondence about the work,
1944 – 1946

Includes letters from
potential contributors, correspondence with writers who began a section but did
not complete it before publication, letters from Reed to his board of advisors,
and letters about ordering or acquiring the history

F65Correspondence with contributors, Volume
I, Chapters 1 – 10

Includes cancelled
checks, original letters to Henry Clay Reed, copies of letters from Reed, and
various notes. Includes correspondence with Harold Hancock.

F66Correspondence with contributors, Volume
I, Chapters 11 – 25

Includes cancelled
checks, original letters to Henry Clay Reed, copies of letters from Reed, and
various notes. Includes a letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to Mary de Vou about
a suffrage speech Catt delivered in Delaware

F67Correspondence with contributors, Volume
II, Chapter 26 – 41

Includes cancelled
checks, original letters to Henry Clay Reed, copies of letters from Reed, and
various notes. Includes correspondence with Pauline A. Young about “The Negro
in Delaware,” and with Winifred Robinson about the history of the Women’s
College at the University of Delaware

F68Correspondence with contributors, Volume
II, Chapters 42 – 52

Includes cancelled
checks, original letters to Henry Clay Reed, copies of letters from Reed, and
various notes. Includes correspondence with Emalea P. Warner about women’s
clubs in Delaware

F69Reviews, critiques, and correspondence
after publication

F70Annotated Manuscript Fragment

“Counterfeiting in the
United States from the Revolution to the Civil War” (41 p)

F71History of counterfeiting

Includes correspondence,
notes, and news clippings; also includes research cards removed to card box 13.

F72Mason-Dixon Line

Annotated Manuscript
Fragment “Mason-Dixon Line,” (7 p.), 1951, with notes, research, and
correspondence about the Line boundaries in Delaware. Includes several
off-prints about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon by Thomas Cope, and a 1950
road map of Delaware with notes from Cope about Mason's route.

Series
V. Publications, Manuscripts, and
Related Materials (cont’d)

4

F73Swedish Colonial Society Publication, 1956
– 1961

Reed
arranged the publication of Crane Hook on
the Delaware 1667 – 1699: An Early Swedish Lutheran Church and Community by
Jeannette Eckman. The folder includes orders, correspondence about the
publication, and reviews. See also Series VI, F90

F74A
Bibliography of Delaware through 1960, 1955 – 1966

Correspondence, receipts,
and research notes. Includes a “Recreation Promotion and Service Directory,”
1959.

F75The
Delaware Colony, correspondence, 1967 – 1970

Includes correspondence
with publisher, sample book jacket, cards, news clippings, and reviews

Series VI.Prof. and
Historical Activities, Interests, and Associations

VI.1.Activities and Organizations

4F79Delaware
State Archives, 1927 – 1930, 1967

Reed was seasonally
employed by the State Archives Commission as special assistant to Henry C. Conrad,
head archivist in those years. This folder includes a report Reed wrote during
his employment on the conditions of the archives with recommendations, news
clippings, and correspondence.

F80Library Correspondence, 1932 – 1968

Includes correspondence
with public and academic libraries and historical societies about material
duplication, book purchases, gifts, and extent of collections

F81Personal and Professional Collecting
Activities, 1937 – 1961

Reed also seems to have
built his own collections of books, manuscripts, stamps, and other materials.
These papers reference auctions, sales, or personal materials.

Series
VI.Prof. Activities, Interests, and
Associations (cont’d)

VI.1.Activities
and Organizations (cont’d)

4

F82AAmerican Association for State and Local
History (AASLH)

Reed was influential in
bringing a conference of the AASLH to Delaware in 1951; folder includes program
and lists of delegates and printed materials from the AASLH

First
Annual Report of the Civil War Centennial Commission, Offprint of the Joint
Resolution (85-305, 253) recognizing the centennial; minutes and bulletins of
the Delaware Civil War Centennial Commission; correspondence, newsletters and
papers from the Civil War Round Table of Wilmington, Delaware.

F83Delaware Folklore Society, 1951 – 1958,
correspondence

F84AMuseum work

The Henry Francis DuPont
Winterthur Museum, 1955 – 1957, 1973 – 1974

Correspondence, notes
and outlines of his consulting work in the use of money and coins in the
gallery spaces, and a letter of recommendation from Marion Reed for a student applying
to the program in Early American Culture.

F84BMuseum work

The
Dickinson Mansion, 1956 - 1978

Includes correspondence,
ephemera, invitations, and a series: "A News Letter from The Friends of
the John Dickinson Mansion, Incorporated." Issues from volumes 1-10, 12,
16, and 17.

Includes printed
materials, programs, and invitations, such as programs from the Lewes
Tercentenary Celebration, the Longwood Garden Tercentenary Celebration,
correspondence from Sweden with commemorative stamps, and invitations to
numerous celebrations.

Wilmington’s
Tercentenary, a ten minute radio talk by John Nields, 28 July 1928,

Du Pont presents The Cavalcade of America, 22 June 1938 – Radio
Script: “The Swedes Land in Delaware,” and “Address of George H. Earle,
Governor of Pennsylvania... over nation – wide radio network,” 23 March 1938

F89The American Swedish Historical Museum,
1938 – 1939

Correspondence and
ephemera

F90The Delaware
Swedish Colonial Society, 1948 – 1961

Bylaws, events, and
invitations

F91The Delaware
Swedish Colonial Society, 1948 – 1968

Correspondence and
ephemera

F92The Delaware
Swedish Colonial Society, 1959 – 1970

Newsletters

F93New Castle Tercentary, 1951

Cards, programs,
newsletter

F94Wilmington’s 325 Anniversary Celebration,
1963

Program for the “325th
Anniversary Celebration of New Sweden,” 1963; invitations, printed material,
commemorative buttons

F95Swedish Heritage and Tercentenary
Publications, 1937 – 1979

Includes The American Scandinavian Review, Spring
1938; “Delaware Tercentenary: Official Program of the Celebration,” 1938; Allan
Kastrup’s Digest of Sweden; “Swedish
Council News,” Summer 1979; “Delaware Tercentenary 1638 – 1938, Committee of
Drama, Music and Arts;” The American
Swedish Monthly, March 1937; and The
American Swedish Monthly, June, 1938

F96Swedish heritage and Tercentenary news clippings

VI. 3.Additional Research and Materials

14F97American
Currency – Research and notes

Includes a three dollar
paper currency note from “The Drovers Bank, Leavenworth City, Kansas,” dated
1856; photo-static examples of other American currency, research receipts, a news
clipping, and research transcripts such as a letter from “Judge Sherwood to
Jas. Bayard,” 1868, on currency questions

Includes notarized
letters, affidavits, depositions, powers of attorney, correspondence,
handwritten claims, and complaints of “Indian depredation” from Oregon,
Nevada, the Territory
of New Mexico, Utah,
Arizona, and California.
Also contains a reprint of Congressional Committee report S. 163, report 3185, about reimbursing persons who “expended
moneys... in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities” in Nevada

F99African Americans and Civil Rights –
Research and materials

Includes bibliographical
citations and notes, an annotated copy of an essay, “A Princeton President on
the Negro Problem,” (versos of several sheets contain directions to “Grow a
Garden for Victory this Year” ca.1943) reprintings of “The Origins of Negro
Craftsmanship in Colonial America,” Journal
of Negro History,” October, 1947; Negroes
in the United States: Their Employment and Economic Status, Bulletin No.
1119, Department of Labor, 1952; “Northern Prejudice and Negro Suffrage, 1865 –
1870,” Journal of Negro History,
January 1954, and clippings about desegregation, interracial marriage, and
other topics

F100Journal
of Captain John Montresor, and other transcripts and photostats

Typed transcriptions of
entries from 1777- 1778 with scattered notations (62 pp), also includes Relation of Virginia by Henry Spelman,
1609; a photo-stat of The Advice of Evan
Ellis, late of Chester County, deceased to his Daughter, when at Sea, 1740,
and others

F101APrinted Materials and Ephemera – Newark,
Delaware - Politics

Includes numerous
campaign mailings and ephemera, a flyer “Welcome to Major General J. W.
O’Daniel by the Citizens of Newark,” and materials relating to the 1950 “Sunday
Movie Controversy”

Skating
Club News, Wilmington, October 1963; The
Westminster Chimes, Wilmington, 1964; pamphlet Wilmington Millionaire Ring forces liquor on the State of Delaware,
Jefferson D. Chalfant concert, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, 1959; and
other local items

Includes other Delaware
and New Jersey materials such as letters and political ephemera for a variety
of candidates. Also includes political propaganda received by Reed, warning of
communist and Zionistplots surrounding
integration in Delaware.

F101EPrinted Materials and Ephemera – Delaware
Related

Includes newsletters such
as Saturday Evening Post, 1949, with
a cover story on Dover, Delaware, Red
Feather Facter[sic], October 1959, Diamond
State Bulletin, December1962, Middletown’s
First Presbyterian Church address, programs for The Delaware Highland
Gathering, 1967; The Delaware Flower Show at the University, 1961; and reports
for Eleutherian Mills – Hagley Museum

F102APrinted Materials, Newsletters, and Ephemera

Materials from historic
sites Reed visited in the Mid Atlantic and other items

F102BPrinted Materials and Ephemera related to
Religion

Contains
tracts against Free Masons and other secret societies

F103Additional Newspapers and Clippings

Numerous articles of
local and national interest, including some original clippings with Newark
photographs.

F104Miscellaneous research and notes

Includes “List exhibits
the Result of every claim... under the late treaty with Denmark... May 1833,”
Department of State holograph document, 7
May 1833. Printed document: alphabetical list of marine vessels and
parties claiming damage, a map: "Chester as William Penn Knew it,
1701," typed manuscript pages "Racial Elements in Mexico," and
other items

IV. 4. Papers of Marion J.
Bjornson (Reed)

F105Papers of Marion Bjornson

Includes "The First
Constitution of Delaware" and "The Adoption of the Federal
Constitution by Maryland"